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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Friday, September 20, 2002

Origins of the word Mozilla and a free online book
This is cool: The book Creating Applications with Mozilla is now available for free online. Among other things noted in the preface is the origin of the word Mozilla: "When Netscape Communications Corporation was founded, it planned to create a better version of NCSA's Mosaic browser, the first application that made accessing the Internet possible for ordinary users. This new application would be a Mosaic Killer. In time, the word 'Mozilla' became the shortened version of this phrase and the code word for Netscape's browsers." Nice.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002

Phoenix 0.1 due Monday!
Not sure how this happened so quickly, but Blake Ross says we can expect Phoenix 0.1 on Monday.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Mozdev is back
Weird. And no mention of what happened. UPDATE: From the mozdev owners mailing list, "Update - the ISP is seeing errors at the physical circuit. They've notified Verizon, who are expected to take a look today. Thanks for your patience."

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Monday, September 16, 2002

Apple hits rock bottom?
According to this article in Business 2.0, Apple's market share has sunk to just 2.6 percent, a statistical rounding error in most markets. Yikes.

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Whither Mozdev?
One of the best mozilla development sites, mozdev.org has been knocked off the Net for at least a week now, and yet I haven't seen anyone addressing this problem. Where the heck did it go?

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Red Hat explains
As I mention in my mini-review of Red Hat 8.0, below, the new Red Hat desktop is heading off into ease-of-use land, which is good for normal people, not so good for the typical techie geeks that use Linux. To quell criticism, Red Hat Desktop Team Member Owen Taylor has written an article explaining the design decisions the company made for this release. It's an interesting read, suggesting that Red Hat really does get the desktop.

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